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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: 34756@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34756: 26.1.92; Minor typos across manuals
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 08:41:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mum9u30u.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)

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Severity: minor
Tags: patch


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From fcd0f14e4492ce59c214e54cc4c3d2854be62190 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 08:01:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Fix some plural "Message-IDs" typos in Gnus docs

doc/misc/gnus.texi (Article Buttons):
lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el (gnus-button-mid-or-mail-heuristic-alist)
(gnus-button-mid-or-mail-heuristic): Write singular number of
Message-IDs, rather than plural.
lisp/gnus/message.el (message-user-fqdn): Capitalize initialism.
---
 doc/misc/gnus.texi    | 2 +-
 lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el | 4 ++--
 lisp/gnus/message.el  | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/misc/gnus.texi b/doc/misc/gnus.texi
index a0c5732943..4ee80eacb2 100644
--- a/doc/misc/gnus.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/gnus.texi
@@ -9394,7 +9394,7 @@ Article Buttons
 @item gnus-button-mid-or-mail-heuristic
 @findex gnus-button-mid-or-mail-heuristic
 Function that guesses whether its argument is a message ID or a mail
-address.  Returns @code{mid} if it's a message IDs, @code{mail} if
+address.  Returns @code{mid} if it's a message ID, @code{mail} if
 it's a mail address, @code{ask} if unsure and @code{invalid} if the
 string is invalid.
 
diff --git a/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el b/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el
index 9cd5a1f643..4eb6249490 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el
@@ -7504,7 +7504,7 @@ gnus-button-mid-or-mail-heuristic-alist
     (2.0   . "^[A-Z][a-z][A-Z][a-z][a-z][^a-z]")) ;; ^[A-Z][a-z]{4,4}
   "An alist of (RATE . REGEXP) pairs for `gnus-button-mid-or-mail-heuristic'.
 
-A negative RATE indicates a message IDs, whereas a positive indicates a mail
+A negative RATE indicates a message ID, whereas a positive indicates a mail
 address.  The REGEXP is processed with `case-fold-search' set to nil."
   :version "22.1"
   :group 'gnus-article-buttons
@@ -7513,7 +7513,7 @@ gnus-button-mid-or-mail-heuristic-alist
 
 (defun gnus-button-mid-or-mail-heuristic (mid-or-mail)
   "Guess whether MID-OR-MAIL is a message ID or a mail address.
-Returns `mid' if MID-OR-MAIL is a message IDs, `mail' if it's a mail
+Returns `mid' if MID-OR-MAIL is a message ID, `mail' if it's a mail
 address, `ask' if unsure and `invalid' if the string is invalid."
   (let ((case-fold-search nil)
 	(list gnus-button-mid-or-mail-heuristic-alist)
diff --git a/lisp/gnus/message.el b/lisp/gnus/message.el
index 0d166fb8ce..d260bdb2a2 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/message.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/message.el
@@ -1741,7 +1741,7 @@ message-wide-reply-confirm-recipients
   :type 'boolean)
 
 (defcustom message-user-fqdn nil
-  "Domain part of Message-Ids."
+  "Domain part of Message-IDs."
   :version "22.1"
   :group 'message-headers
   :link '(custom-manual "(message)News Headers")
-- 
2.20.1


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From 66fdf582ba22b1197655d43080797bcd42ae92bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 07:48:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Fix possessive "it's" -> "its" typos in manuals

doc/misc/cc-mode.texi (Style Variables, Customizing Indentation):
doc/misc/ede.texi (Extending EDE, ede-project-placeholder)
(ede-target, ede-proj-target, ede-compilation-program, ede-compiler)
(ede-linker): Remove apostrophe from possessive "it's".
---
 doc/misc/cc-mode.texi |  4 ++--
 doc/misc/ede.texi     | 16 ++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/misc/cc-mode.texi b/doc/misc/cc-mode.texi
index 1a77a64e01..47ae83ab39 100644
--- a/doc/misc/cc-mode.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/cc-mode.texi
@@ -2548,7 +2548,7 @@ Style Variables
 @item
 The style variable @code{c-offsets-alist} (@pxref{c-offsets-alist}) is
 an association list with an element for each syntactic symbol.  It's
-handled a little differently from the other style variables.  It's
+handled a little differently from the other style variables.  Its
 default global binding is the empty list @code{nil}, rather than
 @code{set-from-style}.  Before the style system is initialized, you
 can add individual elements to @code{c-offsets-alist} by calling
@@ -5286,7 +5286,7 @@ Customizing Indentation
 @defopt c-basic-offset
 @vindex basic-offset @r{(c-)}
 This style variable holds the basic offset between indentation levels.
-It's factory default is 4, but all the built-in styles set it
+Its factory default is 4, but all the built-in styles set it
 themselves, to some value between 2 (for @code{gnu} style) and 8 (for
 @code{bsd}, @code{linux}, and @code{python} styles).
 @end defopt
diff --git a/doc/misc/ede.texi b/doc/misc/ede.texi
index 513461d0e0..4edb53d953 100644
--- a/doc/misc/ede.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/ede.texi
@@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@ Extending EDE
 
 If you intend to extend @ede{}, it is most likely that a new target type is
 needed in one of the existing project types.  The rest of this chapter
-will discuss extending the @code{ede-project} class, and it's targets.
+will discuss extending the @code{ede-project} class, and its targets.
 See @file{project-am.el} for basic details on adding targets to it.
 
 For the @code{ede-project} type, the core target class is called
@@ -1477,7 +1477,7 @@ ede-project-placeholder
 @end deffn
 
 @deffn Method ede-project-root :AFTER this
-If a project knows it's root, return it here.
+If a project knows its root, return it here.
 Allows for one-project-object-for-a-tree type systems.
 @end deffn
 
@@ -1486,7 +1486,7 @@ ede-project-placeholder
 @end deffn
 
 @deffn Method ede-project-root-directory :AFTER this &optional file
-If a project knows it's root, return it here.
+If a project knows its root, return it here.
 Allows for one-project-object-for-a-tree type systems.
 Optional @var{FILE} is the file to test.  It is ignored in preference
 of the anchor file for the project.
@@ -2516,7 +2516,7 @@ ede-target
 @end deffn
 
 @deffn Method project-delete-target :AFTER ot
-Delete the current target @var{OT} from it's parent project.
+Delete the current target @var{OT} from its parent project.
 @end deffn
 
 @deffn Method ede-target-sourcecode :AFTER this
@@ -2715,7 +2715,7 @@ ede-proj-target
 @end deffn
 
 @deffn Method project-delete-target :AFTER this
-Delete the current target @var{THIS} from it's parent project.
+Delete the current target @var{THIS} from its parent project.
 @end deffn
 
 @deffn Method ede-proj-makefile-target-name :AFTER this
@@ -4013,7 +4013,7 @@ ede-compilation-program
 
 The commands used to execute this compiler.
 The object which uses this compiler will place these commands after
-it's rule definition.
+its rule definition.
 
 @item :autoconf
 Type: @code{list} @*
@@ -4125,7 +4125,7 @@ ede-compiler
 
 The commands used to execute this compiler.
 The object which uses this compiler will place these commands after
-it's rule definition.
+its rule definition.
 
 @item :objectextention
 Type: @code{string}
@@ -4265,7 +4265,7 @@ ede-linker
 
 The commands used to execute this compiler.
 The object which uses this compiler will place these commands after
-it's rule definition.
+its rule definition.
 
 @item :objectextention
 Type: @code{string}
-- 
2.20.1


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From 289800f11f4dc6ac133a2af13b1d2f691f33b9f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 08:00:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Fix "an other" -> "another" typos in manuals

doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (Find a File):
doc/misc/gnus-faq.texi (FAQ 2-2): Write "an other" as a single word.
---
 doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi | 2 +-
 doc/misc/gnus-faq.texi              | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
index 3305f5b3ad..c4b19a4e50 100644
--- a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
+++ b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
@@ -14824,7 +14824,7 @@ Find a File
 @code{describe-function} command), the @code{find-file-noselect}
 function reads the named file into a buffer and returns the buffer.
 (Its most recent version includes an optional @var{wildcards} argument,
-too, as well as another to read a file literally and an other you
+too, as well as another to read a file literally and another to
 suppress warning messages.  These optional arguments are irrelevant.)
 
 However, the @code{find-file-noselect} function does not select the
diff --git a/doc/misc/gnus-faq.texi b/doc/misc/gnus-faq.texi
index 55010d4e43..d4be7b1f0c 100644
--- a/doc/misc/gnus-faq.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/gnus-faq.texi
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ FAQ 2-2
 @subsubheading Answer
 
 You get the message described in the q/a pair above while
-starting Gnus, right? It's an other symptom for the same
+starting Gnus, right? It's another symptom for the same
 problem, so read the answer above.
 
 @node FAQ 2-3
-- 
2.20.1


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Are the three attached patches acceptable for the emacs-26 branch?
If so, should I add this bug number to all or none of them?

Thanks,

-- 
Basil

In GNU Emacs 26.1.92 (build 5, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2019-03-05 built on thunk
Repository revision: 52fd40068e0f8b41bd29eaec1334299eb86d0bff
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12003000
System Description:	Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid

             reply	other threads:[~2019-03-05  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-05  8:41 Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2019-03-05 16:17 ` bug#34756: 26.1.92; Minor typos across manuals Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-05 20:44   ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-03-05 20:48     ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-03-06 16:06       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-13 17:35         ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-03-06  3:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-13 17:31       ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-03-13 18:14         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-13 21:32           ` Basil L. Contovounesios

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